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Originally Posted by Dave S
were very proud of the fact that Zenith and Andrea sets still featured a "hand wired" chassis. That was supposed to be the mark of the upper echelon of quality at the time. Not sure if the hand wired circuits of the day were more or less reliable than a printed circuit, but I do recall that the sets cost more!
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Don't know about TVs, but the "hand wired" pitch was a flop in the radio world. Zenith touted their "hand wired" chassis when they introduced the Royal 7000 TransOceanic radio in the late 1960s. This was ten-year old technology and a huge marketing blunder. Competing radios with printed-circuit technology performed better, cost less, and weighed less. Zenith threw away the market for high-end multiband portables, a market they had single-handedly created in the 1940s and dominated for decades.
Phil